Which Hulk Is Stronger? (2008 or 2003)

[Midnight Black]

oh and 08 Hulks healing factor was slower than 03 Hulks. Not that I really care about it that much, but if we are point out things. I'm actually glad they made the hulk this way...it allows for him to maybe have to depend on the help of is team in the avengers movies.

Sometimes a lil vulnerability can be a good thing.

And the whole too green and not enough green thing is so dumb....the man goes green...Green...who cares which tmnt color green he goes...as long as its not brown or blue.

 

[ironwez20]

Hey, got it on the first try. lol

As for Mcentepede, 2008 Hulk struggled doing quite a lot of things that seemed to be no problem for 2003 Hulk. For example throwing the forklift can be compared to 03 Hulk throwing that giant ball when he first transformed. I honestly think the new Hulk would have serious trouble with the Hulk dogs because he's so much smaller. He'd probably end up being pulled in 3 different directions by the things.

08 Hulk just seemed to have such a difficult time with things (even showing fatigue and annoyance) while 03 Hulk kind of just ran through everything with barely any hesitation.

But hey, that's what I like about the new Hulk anyway. He's not this walking deus ex machina that can beat everything on the first try.

actually 03 hulk looked real scared the whole way through the movie, 08 hulk looked pissed, and he hesitated to throw that brick at betty when she was in that helicopter, im seeyin this tommorow to take more notes.

 

[Scooter]

Yeah, Hulk should have obliterated Betty Ross with a chunk of concrete. That's right in line with the character. Stupid Ang Lee...

 

[Midnight Black]

The 08 Hulk struggled a lil bit picking up hum-vs, and not too mention could not jump as high and far as 03. In the scene where he needs to scale the building to get to abom before he hits the chopper. He has to climb it..although this my have been a visual decision on the part of the director. In fact He and Abom have to climb buildings. 03 Would have just jumped up there.

And 08 Hulk barely grab the leg of Abom as they approached the chopper. It wasn't even that far of a distance, compared to the standing jumps (not running) the 03 Hulk had.

 

[Lexar128]

I agree with Slackadjuster and Savage.....I just saw the movie again tonight and my feelings are the same. THE 08 movie is Better and the 03 Hulk is Stronger... point blank. The 08 Hulk struggled a lil bit picking up hum-vs, and not too mention could not jump as high and far as 03. In the scene where he needs to scale the building to get to abom before he hits the chopper. He has to climb it..although this my have been a visual decision on the part of the director. In fact He and Abom have to climb buildings. 03 Would have just jumped up there.

And 08 Hulk barely grab the leg of Abom as they approached the chopper. It wasn't even that far of a distance, compared to the standing jumps (not running) the 03 Hulk had.

He didn't struggle picking up the hum-v......he picked it up....and proceeded to swing it like a 30 oz baseball bat....come on guys.

 

[Comicfan]

And the whole too green and not enough green thing is so dumb....the man goes green...Green...who cares which tmnt color green he goes...as long as its not brown or blue.

I agree... saying the hulk was too green its just plain stupid

 

[Midnight Black]

Na...when he first picked it up it was like watching a strong man lift a heavy truck. It didn't come easy, but we knew he could do it. The 03 Hulk was picking up things like they were doritos.

 

[Lexar128]

Na...when he first picked it up it was like watching a strong man lift a heavy truck. It didn't come easy, but we knew he could do it. The 03 Hulk was picking up things like they were doritos.

Just watched it 3 seconds ago (i downloaded the movie from a torrent site).....i don't know what you saw bro, but he grabbed it...stood up...and swung it like a bat.....THEN....with the hum-v still in his grasp.....lifted it over his head, and slammed it 3 more times. To make matters even better...he then tore out the engine and threw it with enough force to knock 2....TWO....hum-v's 30 feet away

 

[Anubis Raptor]

So that was an engine.........WOW!!!!!

 

[Lantern Venom]

I think the perfect Hulk would have been one with the head & skin of the '08 version with the muscle mass and ferocity of the '03 version. Marvel almost got it right twice.

 

[Lexar128]

So that was an engine.........WOW!!!!!

100% sure.....he threw it, it bounced off the ground once, then knocked the first hum-v about, I'm guessing 30 feet into another one, knocking the second one over on its side. (with the 2nd one exploding)

 

[Anubis Raptor]

Just thougth I'd make this a little clearer........


The most powerful feat of strength in this movie was when Hulk overcame Abomination (Note: Abomination is bigger and stronger than hulk. If thats not enough, Abomination also had something hulk didn't have which were the sharp bones that were jutting out which he could use for weapons).


In Hulk (2003), He threw a 68 ton tank across a desert like a hot wheel car.



Now can someone tell me whose stronger?

 

[Anubis Raptor]

Just thougth I'd make this a little clearer........


The most powerful feat of strength in this movie was when Hulk overcame Abomination (Note: Abomination is bigger and stronger than hulk. If thats not enough, Abomination also had something hulk didn't have which were the sharp bones that were jutting out which he could use for weapons).


In Hulk (2003), He threw a 68 ton tank across a desert like a Tiny hot wheel car.



Now can someone tell me whose stronger?

 

[Scooter]

William Hurt's and Sam Elliott's mustaches were stronger than both Hulks combined.

 

[Lexar128]

Just thougth I'd make this a little clearer........


The most powerful feat of strength in this movie was when Hulk overcame Abomination (Note: Abomination is bigger and stronger than hulk. If thats not enough, Abomination also had something hulk didn't have which were the sharp bones that were jutting out which he could use for weapons).


In Hulk (2003), He threw a 68 ton tank across a desert like a hot wheel car.



Now can someone tell me whose stronger?

How many times did he have to swing it to get it that far? How about when he walked to the second tank....he struggled to bend the tanks cannon. This debate will never see an outcome. Because the 08 Hulk will never be in the 03 movie....and the 03 Hulk will never be in the 08 movie. What it boils down to is this, they are both the hulk in different universes (don't know if that makes sense) The 03 Hulk was 15 ft tall...9 ft for the 08 Hulk......Abom was 11 feet. They are just different movies all together....03 being the one that shouldn't have happened. (it just wasn't Hulk, IMO)

 

[Spade]

Why are fans being so obtuse? This film's Hulk had no difficulty picking up anything. He just didn't have the opportunity to throw tanks. Now, is that the fault of the filmmakers? Maybe, if all you care about are feats of strength. But all he had to really struggle to do was to beat Abomination. That's all. Complain about that, but the only people who know how strong the new Hulk is are God and Edward Norton (in that order).

 

[ironwez20]

seriously im wondering why they made a remake, now everybodys saying how 03 hulk and the 03 cast is better, it seems like people that hate 03 hulk just stop and say woah wait aminute 03 hulk is way better then this hulk, now were comparing which hulk is greener whats next who has the bigger feet, it makes me wonder i thought fans hated the 03 hulk movie now i see post that are saying that angs hulk was the most lifelike hulk and it had a better story in it, who cares seriously i for one hate 03 hulk but come on.

 

[singularis]

How about healing and jumping?

I've said repeatedly that the accelerated healing factor is the only clear advantage '03 has ('08 has one, as we saw in the cave scene...it's just much slower)...not that this is really a measure of how "strong" he is (i.e., how much force he is capable of exerting), which is the question being debated.

As for the jumping:

'03 Hulk needed a running start and a few preliminary leaps before he was able to leap like that.

For all the comparisons people are trying to make between the two, we really don't know how high '08 Hulk is capable of jumping...or how fast he is capable of moving, for that matter. We do know that when '08 Bruce woke up in Guatemala, presumably after having slept for most of the day, the caption said it had only been 1 day since the last incident. It is, therefore, implied that he was able to get from the middle of Brazil, in South America, to somewhere in Guatemala, in Central America, in no more than a few hours...if that. He obviously wasn't moving in those little rooftop-to-rooftop leaps we saw after his fight with Abomination.

Someone (jokingly, I think) replied that he could've taken a plane...but obviously not, since he woke up a tattered, confused mess in the middle of nowhere.

Also:

I think, as has already been surmised by others, that they deliberately avoided putting '08 Hulk in situations that would've required him to do the fantastical things '03 Hulk did, in order to keep the character more grounded (hence the fade out at the end of the Abom fight, right as we were about to see how far he could truly leap).

I just don't think we saw them in enough comparable situations to say that one is *definitely* stronger than the other.

 

[Kirmit]

Not just voting... debating, nit picking, all the good stuff. there's a frog around here that's even using geometry and the laws of physics to argue that throwing a forklift is a lot harder than throwing a tank. )

Um excuse me but you might want to go back and read what I said! I did NOT say it was harder throwing a forklift than a tank, I said the circumstances in which they were thrown need to be taken into account. '03 didn't simply pick the tank up and thrown it a mile, he had to use momentum and all his strength in order to do it. So do yourself a favour and go back and reread what I said, next time don't be so quick to judge! .

 

[Sava]

seriously im wondering why they made a remake, now everybodys saying how 03 hulk and the 03 cast is better, it seems like people that hate 03 hulk just stop and say woah wait aminute 03 hulk is way better then this hulk, now were comparing which hulk is greener whats next who has the bigger feet, it makes me wonder i thought fans hated the 03 hulk movie now i see post that are saying that angs hulk was the most lifelike hulk and it had a better story in it, who cares seriously i for one hate 03 hulk but come on.

for some one who doesnt care, you keep posting in this thread alot.

the cast is better in this one, like someone else said, the design is better in 08, while 03 is just stronger.

 

[sirchrissypoo]

Obviously it's impossible to know without seeing the new movie, but I agree that based on trailers this Hulk looks a little less powerful than the '03 Hulk... And more grounded (I don't see this Hulk jumping like 10 miles).

If you read the comics, you know that the Hulk can really jump pretty far. If he were angry enough, he could easily leap 10 miles.

As for the question, I think that while the '03 Hulk may have looked stronger, the '08 Hulk was stronger overall and more accurate. At least the '08 Hulk didn't keep changing size when his anger changed.

 

[Lantern Venom]

seriously im wondering why they made a remake, now everybodys saying how 03 hulk and the 03 cast is better, it seems like people that hate 03 hulk just stop and say woah wait aminute 03 hulk is way better then this hulk, now were comparing which hulk is greener whats next who has the bigger feet, it makes me wonder i thought fans hated the 03 hulk movie now i see post that are saying that angs hulk was the most lifelike hulk and it had a better story in it, who cares seriously i for one hate 03 hulk but come on.

The two chief complaints about the '03 Hulk was the slow pacing of the 1st 30 minutes and the lack of an epic slugfest. Had Marvel decided to go with Abby in '03, this movie would have been a sequel rather than a reboot.
As for fans hating the '03 Hulk, I think it was more fans of the TV series rather than the comics who were the most vocal about disliking it. Of course, there are exceptions, but when I hear comments like "he took to long to Hulk out", I think about certain issues of the comics being primary based around Banner's psyche rather than Hulk on a rampage.

 

[November Rain]

No that's not what he was saying, I think he's saying the new hulk would welcome a fight whereas Ang's hulk would do his best to avoid one.

I agree with this statement 100%

ang's hulk would rather get himself isolated as quickly as possible while 08 hulk would have probably gone looking for another fight after the ass whooping abomination gave him...

 

[November Rain]

Even though '03 Hulk appeared stronger, I think TIH made the "madder he gets the stronger he gets" more apparent in this one as you can see in the final fight when the Hulk was trying to protect betty

Err, This is false...

The whole growing hulk aspect is a clear indication to all that he's getting stronger as he gets madder by aquiring more mass and it's also stated by betty.

He's having trouble with armed men, so he gets bigger and stronger to take them out

He's having trouble busting out of the foam and talbot's about to drill his head so he gets bigger and stronger to bust out of it.

THe hulk dog has bitten his shoulder, so he gets angry and his shoulder gets bigger and stronger and actually breaks the dogs jaw (one of the coolest scenes in a superhero film).

The new film does none of this. Honestly, ask a non hulk fan if they thought he got stronger as he got madder, the majority would have no clue because nothing in the film clearly indicates it. One could argue simply he put more effort in when he saw betty was in danger which is a typical movie book cliche. I couldn't count the amount of times a hero has come back from the brink of defeat to take down a villain.

 

[Bubonic]

Well thank god we didn't get any of that size morphing ******** in this one.